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One asked her once the resun why She hadde delyte in minstrelsie, She answerëd on this manère. Robert de Brunne.

ever, since my childish looks Could rest on Nature's pictured books; For ever, since my childish tongue Could name the themes our bards have sung; So long, the sweetness of their singing Hath been to me a rapture bringing!— Yet ask me not the reason why I have delight in minstrelsy.